" Negative Space – I am married. But I don’t have a child clinging to me. Does that make me childfree or childless?
The absence of something of such great significance can’t be described by a simple word like vacant. The absence is actually the removal of the object and something else, something intangible, from the observer himself. "

― Ranjani Rao , Negative Space: Stories of Migration, Marriage, and Meaning